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E140: Have You Been Involved with the Government Shutting Down AI Before It Hacks the Dollar?
Episode 137
Tuesday, 30 June, 2026
America’s 250th birthday is coming in hot—and apparently everybody brought their own version of the dollar. BlackRock is plugging a synthetic dollar into its $20 trillion Aladdin platform, Stripe and Visa are lining up stablecoins, and CBDCs are quietly waiting offstage like they never left. Real money, fake money, artificial money, synthetic money… what are your currency’s pronouns?Meanwhile, Anthropic releases its most powerful AI models, the government yanks them offline under everyone’s favorite phrase—“national security”—and suddenly OpenAI and Claude need permission slips for their customers. Sam Altman is still scanning eyeballs, bribery allegations are circling Tools for Humanity, and access to advanced AI may soon depend on whether your orb knows who you are.Toner and BTC Ankarino connect the new AI walled gardens to the old Apple-versus-Microsoft playbook, then head to Hollywood, where synthetic entertainment is already leaving the storyboard behind. China launches all-in-one AI filmmaking tools, vertical micro-dramas become derivative media products, and the next blockbuster may be tested by an algorithm before a human ever steps on set.From Worldcoin to World Cup wagers, from Roblox fidelity to GTA 6 fantasy, this episode asks the only question that matters: if you can buy a synthetic movie with synthetic dollars, is any of it still fake?
